ἵμερος

Etymology
The old connection with 🇨🇬, which belongs to, may be semantically possible, but it leaves the secondary suffix unexplained. Another proposal by Bally assumed a reconstruction, by comparison of 🇨🇬 to 🇨🇬. As remarked by Weiss, the problem with these proposals is that they lead to expect 🇨🇬, while it is consistently found in Sappho and Alcaeus. Weiss convincingly derives this word from instead: he reconstructs a heteroclitic, , with a suffix  also found in  and ; he also compares. This means that originally this word meant "bond, spell".

Noun

 * 1) yearning, longing
 * 2) desire, love